Oct 13, 2014

This week was awesome!  I've got another novel coming so get some popcorn.

It all started with our Zone Training Meeting on Tuesday which was awesome.  The whole tine we were broken into groups until the very end and we discussed different topics like what to do when it rains, weekly planning, and singing to investigators and getting investigators to bare their testimony.  Went super well.  Then I talked for a few minutes about using the Book of Mormon in proselyting.  Awesome stuff.  Really hope it worked for them because it did for me. 

We have this one woman we contacted my first day in the area.  She owns a shop across from the house and is super nice and loves the missionaries.  We contacted her because nobody else had for some reason.  This week we taught her the Restoration and invited her to be baptized which she accepted then I felt the distinct prompting to sing to her Come Follow Me.  After to trying to avoid that one I succumbed to the spirit and we sang the hymn for her.  Right there in her shop on the roadside.  Guess what?  We sounded terrible hahaha.  It was still very spiritual and she came to Church yesterday which was also a miracle because anybody else who heard me sing probably will never come.  We had several promising people promise to come to Church and nobody came and after the sacrament I bowed my head and just started praying for somebody to come to Church and be serious.  I said amen and when I lifted but my head I saw her, her name is M, she’s in her 40's, walking up.  Heavenly Father has THE best timing.  Sometimes I feel like life is a movie where you see the hero in the mist of overwhelming odds and then the Riders of Rohan appear on the crest of the hill.  How can they not believe?

We had another answer to our prayers this week too.  We have really been praying for one person that will progress and we can begin teaching and she came to us this week.  Actually she went to Church last week and was referred to us.  Man, she is cool.  We taught her on Wednesday for the first time then on Thursday when we invited her to be baptized and she resolutely said "yes I will."  She said that more seriously than most other people I know that have been baptized.  

Met one member who came to visit.  He is from Ghana was baptized in Germany, was bishop in Ghana and now lives in Texas for the last 11 years.  I asked him how he saw Texas and he said "Texas is big.  Everything there is big.  Big cars, Big food, Big people."  Funny guy.  

Saturday night I found a great use for my laser pointer.  We had some great fun playing the limbo with it.  It was light off so it was pretty dark and you can already see the line from that laser and its super dusty which just made it better.  Had some fun with the apartment doing that.  I cut up my toe pretty good but I still won :D  

I also had an awesome experience seeing a bunch of my old friends from Kaneshie ward.  Since they worship at the stake center I got to go there to meet the stake president on Tuesday and saw a bunch of them at institute and they were like "Elder Clark!  We heard you were back, is it really true?"  I love Kaneshie ward with all my heart.  It's nice to be loved sometimes too.    

That's all for this week.  Love you all!

Love,

Elder Clark